freezer

English

Etymology

From freeze +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɹiːzə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)

Noun

freezer (plural freezers)

1. An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

   Hyponyms: chest freezer, deep freeze, deep freezer, deep-freezer (stand-alone appliance); cooler (room), walk-in (room)

   Coordinate terms: fridge, refrigerator; icebox

2. The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

   Hypernym: compartment

   Holonyms: fridge, fridge-freezer, refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer

3. (neuroscience, Parkinson's disease) A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
4. (computing) A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.
   • Early Home Computers (page 231)

     […] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]

   • 2016, Polgár Tamás, Freax: The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene:

     The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.

Derived terms

• biofreezer
• bumfreezer
• chest freezer
• deepfreeze, deep-freeze, deep freeze
• freezer bag
• freezer block
• freezer burn
• freezer cooking
• freezer paper
• freezer-proof
• fridge-freezer
• refrigerator-freezer

 

Descendants

• → Macanese: friza

Translations

part of a refrigerator

• Arabic:

  Gulf Arabic: فريزر m (frēzar)

  Moroccan Arabic: فريڭو m (frīgu)

  North Levantine Arabic: تلاجة (tallāje)

  South Levantine Arabic: فريزر (frīzar)

• Armenian: սառցարան (hy) (saṙcʻaran)
• Azerbaijani: buzluq
• Belarusian: маразі́лка f (marazílka)
• Bulgarian: ка́мера f (kámera) (за дълбоко замразяване)
• Catalan: congelador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰櫃／冰柜 (zh) (bīngguì)

• Czech: mrazák (cs) m, mraznička (cs) f
• Danish: fryser (da) c
• Dutch: vriezer (nl) m, diepvries (nl) m, diepvriezer (nl) m
• Estonian: sügavkülmkapp
• Finnish: pakastelokero (fi)
• French: congélateur (fr) m
• German: Gefrierschrank (de) m, Gefriertruhe (de) f, Gefrierfach (de) n
• Greek: κατάψυξη (el) f (katápsyxi)
• Hebrew: מַקְפִּיא (he) m (makpí)
• Hungarian: fagyasztó (hu)
• Icelandic: frystihólf (is) n
• Italian: congelatore (it) m
• Japanese: 冷凍庫 (ja) (れいとうこ, reitōko), フリーザー (ja) (furīzā)
• Kazakh: мұздатқыш (kk) (mūzdatqyş)
• Khmer: ថតបង្កក (thɑɑt bɑngkɑɑk)
• Korean: 냉동고(冷凍庫) (ko) (naengdonggo), 랭동고(冷凍庫) (raengdonggo) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: тоңдургуч (toŋdurguc)
• Ladino: frizer m
• Latvian: saldētava f
• Lithuanian: šaldiklis m
• Macedonian: замрзнувач m (zamrznuvač)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: pākatio
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөлдөөгч (mn) (xöldöögč)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠯᠳᠡᠭᠡᠭᠴᠢ (köldegeɣči)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fryser (no) m, dypfryser m

• Polish: zamrażarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: congelador (pt) m, frízer (pt) m
• Romanian: congelator (ro) n
• Russian: морози́лка (ru) f (morozílka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: замрзѝва̄ч m

  Roman: zamrzìvāč (sh) m

• Slovak: mraznička f
• Slovene: zamrzovalnik m
• Spanish: congelador (es) m
• Swedish: frysfack (sv) n
• Tajik: сармодон (sarmodon), морозилка (morozilka)
• Thai: ช่องแช่แข็ง
• Turkish: dondurucu (tr), buzluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: морози́лка f (morozýlka)
• Uzbek: muzlatgich
• Vietnamese: máy đông lạnh
• Walloon: edjaloe (wa) m
• Welsh: rhewgell (cy) f

stand-alone appliance

• Albanian: frigoriferi
• Arabic:

  Egyptian: فريزر m (ferīzar, ferēzar)

  Gulf Arabic: فريزر m (frēzar)

  Moroccan Arabic: فريڭو m (frīgu)

  North Levantine Arabic: تلاجة (tallāje)

  South Levantine Arabic: فريزر (frīzar)

• Armenian: սառցարան (hy) (saṙcʻaran)
• Basque: izozkailu (eu)
• Belarusian: маразі́лка f (marazílka)
• Bulgarian: фри́зер m (frízer)
• Catalan: congelador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰櫃／冰柜 (zh) (bīngguì)

• Czech: mraznička (cs) f, mrazák (cs) m
• Dutch: vriezer (nl) m, diepvriezer (nl) m, diepvries (nl) m
• Esperanto: frostujo
• Estonian: külmuti
• Finnish: pakastin (fi)
• French: congélateur (fr), congélo (fr) m (colloquial)
• Georgian: საყინულე (saq̇inule)
• German: Gefrierschrank (de) m, Gefriertruhe (de) f, Tiefkühlschrank (de) m
• Hebrew: מַקְפִּיא (he) m (makpí)
• Icelandic: frystir (is) m
• Ido: konjelilo
• Italian: congelatore (it) m
• Japanese: フリーザー (ja) (furīzā), 冷凍庫 (ja) (れいとうこ, reitōko)
• Kazakh: мұздатқыш (kk) (mūzdatqyş)
• Khmer: ទូបង្កក (tuu bɑngkɑɑk)
• Korean: 냉동고(冷凍庫) (ko) (naengdonggo), 랭동고(冷凍庫) (raengdonggo) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: тоңдургуч (toŋdurguc)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: šaldiklis m
• Macedonian: замрзнувач m (zamrznuvač)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: friża
• Maori: pākatio
• Marathi: फ्रीजर m (phrījar)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөлдөөгч (mn) (xöldöögč)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠯᠳᠡᠭᠡᠭᠴᠢ (köldegeɣči)

• Norman: congélateur m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dypfryser m

• Polish: zamrażarka (pl)
• Portuguese: congelador (pt) m, freezer (pt) m
• Romanian: frigorifice
• Russian: морози́льник (ru) m (morozílʹnik), морози́лка (ru) f (morozílka)
• Scottish Gaelic: reothadair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: замрзѝва̄ч m

  Roman: zamrzìvāč (sh) m

• Slovak: mraznička f, mrazák m
• Slovene: zmrzovalnik m
• Spanish: congelador (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: ijskasi
• Swedish: frys (sv) c, frysskåp (sv) n
• Thai: ตู้แช่
• Tibetan: ཁྱགས་བཟོའི་གློག་སྒམ (khyags bzo'i glog sgam)
• Turkish: buzluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: морози́лка f (morozýlka)
• Uzbek: muzlatgich
• Vietnamese: máy ướp lạnh, máy làm kem
• Walloon: edjaloe (wa) m
• Welsh: rhewgell (cy) f, cwpwrdd rhew m

room

• Bulgarian: хлади́лник (bg) m (hladílnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷凍室／冷冻室 (zh) (lěngdòngshì)

• Finnish: pakastehuone
• German: Gefrierraum m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөлдөөгч камер (xöldöögč kamer)

• Russian: холоди́льник (ru) m (xolodílʹnik)
• Spanish: cámara frigorífica f
• Thai: ห้องเย็น

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English freezer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.zœʁ/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: friseur

Noun

freezer m (plural freezers)

1. freezer compartment

Further reading

• “freezer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• referez, référez

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English freezer.

Noun

freezer m (plural freezers)

1. Alternative spelling of frízer